Finishing-machine.



No. 7l0,620. Patented Oct. 7, I902.

G. SHUTT.

FINISHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Apr., 29, 1901.)

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No. 710,620.' Patented Oct. 7, I902.

a. SHUTT.

FINISHING NIACHINE.

(Application filed Apr. 29, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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GEORGE SHUTT, OF LITTLEFALLS, NEXV JERSEY.

FlNlSHiNG-MACH'lNE.

SPECZFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 710,620, dated October *7, 1902.

Application filed April 29. 1901. Serial No. 58,103. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, GEORGE SHUTT, acitizen of the United States, residing at Littlefalls, near Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Finishing Machinery, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the mannerof finishing velveteens,corduroys, velvets, and cotton-back satins, plushes, and other textile fabrics.

The objects of my invention are, first, to more effectually lay the pile and finish the above-named goods; second, to decrease the expense both in power consumed and in labor in producing the finished article as compared with the machines at present in use; third, the economizing of space; fourth, the doing away with the intense noise accompanying the operation of a so called pegginganachine fifth,the economic construction of the machine, as it requires no foundations, such as are necessary in the pegging-machines, and, sixth, it combines the benefits of brushing and pegging in one machine. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a top View. Fig. 3 is a detailed view of the brush-roll and rolls for-applying the fabric to the brush. Fig. l is a front View of one end of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detailed view of the cylinder and peg-holders. Fig. (5 is a front view of Fig. 5, certain parts being broken out. Fig. 7 is a plan of one end of the cylinder and showing one peg and holder and arch. Fig. Sis an elevation of one end of front of the machine. Fig. 9 is a section of peg and holder. Fig. 10 is a detailed view of the gearing.

Similar numerals refer tosimilar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings the frame is represented by 1. To this frame are secured all the different parts.

The construction is as follows: Two sides 1 are held firmly in position by braces. On the front ends are secured two arch-like pieces 2. Near the center of the machine on two bearings a cylinder 3 revolves, and around this cylinder 3 are two arches 21, supporting l the face of the cylinder.

peg-holders 4, with pegs, which are applied to A short distance from the opposite end from the arches 2 a brush is located and two adjusting-rollers for applying the goods to the brush.

The machine is driven by a belt42 by means of the tight and loose pulleys 41 on a shaft (32, passing through the hearings in the arches 2. On this same shaft there is a gear-wheel 17, which operates a gear 48 on another shaft (31. On this shaft there is a drag-roller 241. This roller is usually covered with card-clothing, so as to firmly grip the goods to secure a steady and uniform take-up. On this shaft (51 thereisalsoanothergearw,whichrevolves the idler 50, which in turn revolves the gear 51 on the end of the cylinder-shaft and so turns the cylinder The brush-roll is revolved by a belt from a pulleyeo on the driving-shaft to the pulley 4:6 on the end of the brush-roll shaft. The peg-holders 4: are held in position and adjusted by and in the arch-pieces 21. These arclrpieces have openings 16, so constructed as to receive the bearings lat, which in turn receive the shaft ends 6 of the peg-holder 4. These bearings 1% have a spring 7 for the purpose ot pressing the bearings outward, and another spring 8, which is considerably heavier and stronger, which presses the bearing 14 toward the cylinder. The spring 8 is compressed by means of the screw 10, threaded through the cap 17 and screwed by means of the hand-wheel 13. Then the screw 10 is screwed inward, the spring 8, which is held in place by the washer 9 on said screw and a recess in the bearing, (see Fig. 6,) is compressed and the bearing forced inward toward the cylinder for the purpose of giving it pressure on the goods. When the screw is drawn up, the spring 8 and the hearing are free from pressure. The bearing 14 is then lifted away or pressed outward by means of the spring 7, which was compressed when the screw 10 was turned inward. This is so that when a fold or thick place or lump passes between the cylinder and the peg 5 the peg can rise by the yielding of the springs, and thus prevent a breaking of the peg.

The peg-holder at consists of a body with the center open or cut out. This opening 26 is for the purpose of admitting the peg 5, which is made of wood, metal, or some composition. On the ends of this holder are shaft ends 6, which turn in the bearings 14, and on one of these ends a handle 20 is placed for turning the pegs out of position to operate. In the back of the holders there are adjusting-screws 18, which serve to adjust the peg to the cylinder when said peg wears down on the edge. There are other screws 19 on the other side of the holder for the purpose of holdingthepegwhenadjusted. Thesescrews 1S and 19 each have a lock-nut to hold them. The pegs act on the surface of the fabric so as to lay the pile in one direction and to give the goods the required luster. The brushroll 36 revolves in the bearings and has two plain rollers 33 and 35 over which the goods 11 pass. The goods also pass under the roller 34:. The rollers 33 and 35 revolve in bearing 65. Said bearings slide in the guide-stands 53, which are secured to the frame 1. A hole is tapped and a screw 51 is threaded in said hole. On the end of the screw 54 there is a portion turned down and a hole in the end of the bearing to admit said end of screw, and in an opening in the bearing 65 and on the end of the screw a collar is secured to the end of said screw, so that when the screw is screwed in or out the collar turning freely in the bearing draws the bearing forward or backward with the screw. Thus the rollers 33 and 35 can be pressed as heavily against the brush 36 as desired, thus regulating the intensity of the action on the goods. The goods are received on a receiving-roller 23, which is revolved by a belt driven by a pulley on the main shaft 62.

The machine operates in the following way: The goods represented by numerals 11 pass first over three tension-bars 39 and then pass under the roll 38, which may have a weight 66 hung by a band over it to increase the drag, then passing over the roll 37, then over the adjustable roll 35, under the roll 34:, then over the other adjustable roll 33. From here the goods pass under or over three more tension-bars, under the roll 31, and then pass over the cylinder 3 in the direction as 'indicated by the arrow 12, from the cylinder down under the two rolls 30 and 29, then over the drag-roll 24, which does the drawing through the fabric. It then passes under the two rolls 28 and 27, then over the roll 25, then over a bar which connects the two arches 2, and finally onto the receiving-roll 23.

\Vhen the machine is in operation, the brush revolving very rapidly brushes the lint, dust, and matted pile, also making the pile lay the same way or direction, regulated by the rollers 33 and 35. The pegs are then applied to the fabric and the required amount of pressure applied, so as to get the proper finish on the fabric. The peg-holders swinging freely in their bearings are drawn against the limiting-screws 15, holding the peg in a position at right angles to the face of the cyl-' inder by reason of its revolution, as indicated by the arrow 12.

In threading the machine the peg can be turned out of the way by means of the bandles 20 by turning the holder in the opposite direction to the pull or tendency on account of the movement of the goods, and again if the peg wears down, as it does, the peg by means of the handles 20 can be turned to the position as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. \Vhen in these positions, they can be straightened by filing or other means. The d rag-roller 24 controls the travel or speed of the goods entirely, as there is a covering of card-clothing to prevent the slipping. This machine is a great saving in doing away with handwork in laying the pile and the work done on the oldstyle pegging-machines, in which there is a greater noise and more expensive foundations.

This machine is principally used on velvets, plushes, corduroys, velveteens, and other textile fabric where there is a pile to be laid or like results required.

The cylinder can be either plain or fluted, as shown at 58 in Fig. 5, and can be either cold or heated by means of connection, as shown at 56 in Fig. 7.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a finishing-machine for velvets, plushes, corduroys, velveteens, cotton-back satins or other textile fabric, the combination of a pegging-cylinder which may be heated, pegs and peg-holders adapted to be turned and to assume difierent angular positions, the pegholder containing pegs beingjournaled in an adjustable yielding bearing, and a handle secured to the end of the peg-holder for the purpose of removing the peg from contact with the goods, and the turning of the said peg to said angular position, and also acting as a weight to keep said peg against the limiting-stop, and the limiting-stop, as set forth and described in the annexed drawings and specifications.

Signed at Littlefalls, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, this 9th day of April, A. D. 1901.

GEORGE SI-IUTT.

\Vitnesses ANNIE SHUTT, \VILLIAM SHUTT. 

